As you know... it is not possible to write Portugal vs Spain in 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th not even early 19th Century... but Portugal vs Castile... because Portugal was a Spanish kingdom as it was Navarre, Aragon or Castile...

Portugal Spanish kingdom, do not make me laugh dear martin 76 I know the Iberian peninsula that was colony of the ROMANS gave the name of HIPANIA where it gave birth to the name Spain in the 15th century
Asturias first Christian kingdom of the Iberian Peninsula. Other Catholic kingdoms were born later in the Iberian peninsula.

Friend Portugal is bordered by two countries Galicia and Castéla Spain to Spain Castêla is bordered by Gibraltar with Galicia with Basque Country with Catalonia etc.etc.

martim 76 the spain is superior to Portugal in territory with union of several countries, but your history of the discoveries owe to Portugal.

Portugal Spanish kingdom, do not make me laugh dear martin 76 I know the Iberian peninsula that was colony of the ROMANS gave the name of HIPANIA where it gave birth to the name Spain in the 15th century
Asturias first Christian kingdom of the Iberian Peninsula. Other Catholic kingdoms were born later in the Iberian peninsula.

Friend Portugal is bordered by two countries Galicia and Castéla Spain to Spain Castêla is bordered by Gibraltar with Galicia with Basque Country with Catalonia etc.etc.

martim 76 the spain is superior to Portugal in territory with union of several countries, but your history of the discoveries owe to Portugal.

You don´t know what means the word Spain and what is Spain... read to Camoens (Spaniard as he wrote), Almeida Garret, Vasconcello, or in 21st Century Saramago etc... History is what is....Spain is Portugal.. and Castile.. but the first place the word Spain was used in Peninsula it was in Aragon... not in Castile.

The Castilian explorations were not due to Portugal... each kingdom was in different directions...Castilian to West and Portuguese to East... Castilian were the first one to go to round the world and the first one in West Indies.. Portuguese the first one in East Indies.

You know martin 76 when I go to the godfather I say I'm going to Spain, but when I say I'm going to Vigo or to A Coruña I say I'm going to Galicia that's how the Portuguese speak.
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